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Last Surprise · Persona 5

EXERCISE 10 OF 26
2-bar fill at bar 23 and 1 more
106 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIEJACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last Surprise on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, ride through bars 57-80, hi-hat through bars 81-89 and ride through bars 90-119.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-40, 57-80 and 90-119 -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x-----|
Last Surprise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 23, 24, 55, 56 and 89.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I, E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-9 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 77-90 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Last Surprise?

122 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Last Surprise hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Last Surprise?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 23, 24, 55, 56 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED